(ANSA) Naples, November 7 - UNESCO representatives
Christopher Young and Jean Pierre Adam will visit Pompeii
Saturday at the start of a five-day mission to evaluate progress
in the Great Pompeii Project, official sources said.
The two envoys of the UN Educational and Scientific
Organisation will make a four day carry out a series of
inspections to inspect the state of conservation and ascertain
progress by Italy in the Great Pompeii project and in making
improvements agreed between UNESCO and the Italian culture
ministry (MIBACT), said the sources.
The two will receive briefings from the Superintendent of
Pompeii, Massimo Osanna, the Director General of the Great
Pompeii Project Giovanni Nistri and officials responsible for
maintenance and restoration of the site.
The UNESCO ambassadors also will try to determine the
state of play in implementation of the Management Plan for
Pompeii that was drawn up following an agreement signed in Paris
in November 2011 between the Italian Minister for cultural
Heritage and UNESCO designed "to endow the site with an
instrument of transparent management".
UNESCO officials have criticised Italian authorities in
the past for what is seen as dragging their feet in implementing
changes to protect and enhance Pompeii's priceless
archaeological treasures and its tourist-famed erotic frescoes.
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